Author Archives: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

Recent GAO Report on Sovereign Wealth Funds

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Friday, June 19, 2009

Government investment funds, often referred to as “sovereign wealth funds,” have become increasingly visible investors in the United States, a trend that has not escaped the attention of Congress. A series of recent investments led the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee to raise concerns in 2008 over national security and the possible impact […]

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The Rules of the Game

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Thursday, June 18, 2009

Professor Lucian Bebchuk will be writing a monthly column for Project Syndicate, an international association of 425 newspapers in 150 countries, with a total circulation of about 56 million copies. The series of columns sponsored by the association seeks to bring distinguished voices from across the world to audiences in member newspapers’ countries. Professor Bebchuk’s […]

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Draft Obama Administration White Paper on Financial Regulatory Reform

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Wednesday, June 17, 2009

This post, and the accompanying memorandum, summarizes the key proposals in the Obama Administration’s White Paper on Financial Regulatory Reform based on the “near final” draft White Paper posted by the Washington Post on June 16th. It has also been prepared in advance of the President’s news conference on June 17th and Secretary Geithner’s testimony […]

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Public Pension Fund Reform Code of Conduct

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Recently, New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced an agreement with private equity firm The Carlyle Group (“Carlyle”) in connection with the Attorney General’s investigation, started in 2007, into relationships between New York State’s Common Retirement Fund (“NYCRF”) and investment firms doing business with it.[1] Carlyle agreed to pay $20 million to resolve its […]

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Equity Compensation for Long-Term Results

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced on Wednesday the Obama administration’s strong belief in tying executive compensation to long-term company performance. The regulations issued that day direct the new “compensation czar” to ensure that financial firms receiving “exceptional assistance” from the government don’t “reward employees for short-term or temporary increase in value.” Companies not covered by […]

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Empire-Building or Bridge-Building

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Tuesday, June 16, 2009

In my paper Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEOs’ Internal Capital Allocation Decisions, which was recently accepted for publication in the Review of Financial Studies, I examine CEOs’ decision-making processes for capital allocation in the context of power and relationships within corporations by investigating whether the job histories of CEOs influence their capital allocation […]

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Assessing the Chrysler Bankruptcy

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Monday, June 15, 2009

Editor’s Note: This post by Professor Mark Roe appears today on Forbes.com. Last week, the Supreme Court turned down the last appeal from the creditors objecting to the Chrysler reorganization and the deal closed on the next day. Chrysler has been sold in bankruptcy. This is a good time to assess Chrysler’s bankruptcy. At one […]

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Annual Survey of Developments in Delaware Corporation Law

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Sunday, June 14, 2009

In the current recessionary environment, rather than looking outward for the next big deal, many corporations are turning their focus inward, reviewing and shoring up their own governance structures, defensive mechanisms, indemnification schemes and governing documents. Knowledge of recent Delaware jurisprudence is helpful in such a review, as in numerous instances over the past year, […]

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Flaws in the AIG Trust

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Saturday, June 13, 2009

Editor’s Note: This post is by J.W. Verret of the George Mason University School of Law. I had the opportunity to testify before the House Oversight Committee recently on a panel along with Ed Liddy, the CEO of AIG, and the three trustees nominated by the Federal Reserve to manage the government’s $180 billion investment […]

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Electing Directors

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Friday, June 12, 2009

Shareholder representation by the board of directors is a fundamental component of corporate governance. A great deal of research has focused on the characteristics of corporate boards, yet we know little about uncontested director elections. The subject is particularly important in today’s environment. Congress, stock exchanges, and individual firms have instituted dramatic governance changes. Moreover, […]

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